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20 So he blessed them that day, saying,

“By you[a] Israel will invoke blessings, saying,
‘God make you[b] like Ephraim and like Manasseh.’”

So he put Ephraim ahead of Manasseh. 21 Then Israel said to Joseph, “I am about to die, but God will be with you and will bring you again to the land of your ancestors. 22 I now give to you one portion[c] more than to your brothers, the portion[d] that I took from the hand of the Amorites with my sword and with my bow.”

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 48:20 you here is singular in Heb
  2. Genesis 48:20 you here is singular in Heb
  3. Genesis 48:22 Or mountain slope (Heb shekem, a play on the name of the town and district of Shechem)
  4. Genesis 48:22 Or mountain slope (Heb shekem, a play on the name of the town and district of Shechem)

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